TNS Oneshots

Miss Angela & panic attaks

Piper's POV:

We all stood in our poses at the end of the song 'work' and I personally thought that we did a great job but miss Angela certainly didn't.

When we finished she stood there and said, "I suppose you call that barrage of sloppy movement a dance?" We were all taken aback by this rude and blunt woman, but she was our new studio head, so we tried our hardest to respect her but she made comments to everyone especially me.

It made me feel worthless and useless and I can only hold so much pressure before exploding.

"Hey Pipes, don't listen to miss Angela. You don't have to do acro to be a great dancer." Amy said at our rehearsal break. Miss Angela made everyone do planks AGAIN, and made me practice my aerial again in front of everyone.

I was getting better and everyone kept telling me that I was, and I could almost land steadily on my feet but I would stumble and when I did, Angela would shout and scream insults at me which made my eyes sting with unshed tears.

"Thanks Ames." I said quietly, determined to not let the tears fall. 'Miss Angela just wants us to win, she's trying to help me', is what I told myself to keep myself going strong, but I don't know how much more of this I can take.

"Hey Piper." "Hey Pipes." Summer and Finn said, as the rest of A troupe came over to me and Amy. They all comforted me and told me to ignore Miss Angela, which made me happy that at least I had a family here at TNS, so I nodded and thanked them for helping me out.

"Break's over!" Lily called out sassily, as we all rolled our eyes and made our way back to studio A. "Piper!" Miss Angela yelled out. "Practice your aerials, now!" She yelled at me, as I nodded and pulled out a mat.

Ever since I tried to stand up to her, she got a lot scarier and angrier towards me. I did my aerial and landed before wobbling and I smiled to myself. I slowly but surely getting the hang of it. My smile was erased from my face as I turned to Miss Angela.

"You wobbled!" She yelled, and I had to do it again, as A troupe did more planks. Under her watchful eye, I kept stumbling until she snapped. "How can you not do a simple aerial, Piper!" She bellowed, as I took a step back, A troupe watching on with wide eyes.

"You are so pathetic and useless. It's not that difficult, it's so easy, literally everyone can do one but you can't! You are so disgustingly weak! You are dragging them all down and I cannot take it anymore! You're gonna be the reason why we lose at regionals! You disgrace of a dancer! When you learn to properly do an aerial, you can come back. Get out of my sight!" She screamed at me, as unwelcome tears slid rapidly down my pale face.

Everyone began to get up even though Miss Angela didn't say that they could yet. They began to come closer to me, ignoring Miss Angela's screams of protest but I backed away from them. I was full on sobbing and I just turned around and ran.

The locker room would've been too obvious and I didn't know if studio 1 was empty but I didn't care as I settled for the bathroom. I slid down the wall of the bathroom and tried to control my breathing.

"In and out Piper, it's so easy, you can do it!" I thought to myself. 'It's so easy. It's so easy to do an aerial, so why can't I do one?!' I thought. I yanked at my hair really hard and sobbed even harder.

Why was I so pathetic? Why couldn't I do a simple aerial? She's right I'm going to drag the whole team down. I pulled at my hair harder, just wanting to do anything to get rid of the pain in my heart. I couldn't breathe and my eyesight was so blurry and I just couldn't think straight.

Oh no. Not another panic attack.

Thinking about it made me panic even more, making my breaths erratic. I think I hear the bathroom door open but I don't care, it at least I didn't in that moment. I just bawled loudly into my knees, pulling and yanking on my hair.

"Piper, breathe." I heard a voice say to me. I recognised it as Finn but I just ignored him, as he rubbed my shoulders comfortingly.

"Piper, please stop, you're hurting yourself." I heard Amy say as her hands pried my hands away from my hair.

"Please. Piper, please, take a deep breath in." I heard Richelle say, but I shook my head. "I can't!" I shouted out in panic.

"Yes you can. Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out." Finn said with his hand on my shoulder, as someone rubbed my back. I could tell it was Summer because of her flower scented body spray.

I followed Finn and soon enough my breathing slowed down and so did my heartbeat, and all that could be heard was my sniffling. I could feel the warmth of A troupe as they cuddled around me, protectively.

"Thanks, guys." I mumbled, after a while as I looked up, my raw red eyes and red, tear stained cheeks meeting the eyes of my teammates. "Oh Piper." Kenzie said, as she gave me a hug, her sweet smelling hair oils wafting in the air. A second after, all of A troupe were giving me a hug and I was so grateful to all of them.

We stayed like that until I gasped and stiffened. Everyone realised this and turned to face the direction that I was looking in. Lily was standing at the entrance of the bathroom with a shocked expression on her face, and she stepped back as everyone glared at her.

"Um, my mum wants... you all to come back to studio A. I'm really sorry, Piper. I... didn't mean to hurt you like that. Um... you can come sit with us as we rehearse or you can go home... it's..it's fine." She said nervously, as I shook my head whilst giving her a small smile. "Um thanks.. but no thanks. I'll call James to come pick me up." I said in a small voice.

"Lily, you,-" Richelle started, about to stand up but Noah put a hand on her shoulder and shook his head, not wanting to stress me out even more, to which I was grateful for. She looked at me and her eyes softened but she glared back at Lily, humphed and crossed her arms, sitting down again.

"We're not going back until James comes and picks her up." Amy said defiantly, shooting daggers at Lily. "Um...that's okay. It's fine... I'm sorry again, Piper..um, yeah, I'll see you guys later." She muttered, looking down in guilt and shame before quietly turning around and leaving.

"The nerves of her." Kingston exclaimed as the others agreed. "Guys it's alright. My brother's texted me that he's here now so I've got to go. I'll be in bright and early tomorrow morning, so I guess I'll see you guys later." I said standing up with a small smile, which contrasted harshly with my red tear stained face.

"Okay Piper, we're really sorry, by the way." Ozzy said, as I smiled at him. "No worries guys." I said, as they all pulled me into a large group hug, before I went to the carpark and they went back to their rehearsals.

"Hey Pipes. How'd you get sick, I thought- Hey, what's wrong?" James said as I got into the car. "I'll tell you when we get home." I mumbled quietly, sending him a small yet broken smile. "Okay. And by home, do you mean home 1 or home 2?" James asked smiling at me, as I laughed a bit.

I always refer to my actual house as home 1 and I prefer to James and Riley's house as home 2.

"Home 2 please." I said smiling. When we got to James and Riley's house, I sat down with James in the living room, as Riley was still at work, and I cried.

Every single tear I had left, all the pain I still felt, all the vivid emotions I felt, I cried all of it out, as I retold James the story of what happened and he hugged me tightly, whispered soothing words in my ears and rubbed my back.

After that long day, I ate a couple of snacks, watched a movie with James who managed to somehow cheer me up and I went straight to bed, not waking up until the next morning.

I was shaken awake by Amy and Richelle and I screamed in shock of seeing these two girls here. They just laughed and explained to me how James called miss Kate, reported miss Angela and got her fired.

It turns out that they closed the studio for a few days to find a replacement for her, so James said that I could do with A troupe visiting me, so he called them to come over.

I was shocked yet so overjoyed, my best friends were all here and miss Angela was gone.

Maybe this will be the start of something new!

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